Shepherds Clinic And The Joy Wellness Center
2800 Kirk Avenue
Baltimore, Md 21218
U.S.A.
Accessible Through Citylink Green Bus Lines #53 And #22.
Email: info@shepherdsclinic.org
Clinic Phone: (410) 467-7140
Hours: Clinic Hours Have Been Modified Due To COVID-19 :
M: Closed
Tue- Thur: 8 am to 4 pm
F: 8 am to 1 pm
Sat: 9-1 (2 Saturdays per month)
Sun: Closed
Scheduled Holiday Closures
Social Work and Counseling Supervisor
Natalie McCabe is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a Maryland Board-approved supervisor who has worked in the field for over 10 years. She has led teams, departments, and small organizations. Natalie is a skilled therapist who uses CBT and a Strengths-based approach to help her clients overcome challenges and improve their well-being. Her dissertation examines the gender and racial barriers black women face in executive leadership and focuses on potential interventions and best practices for addressing these barriers and providing opportunities for leadership advancement. Natalie has a warm and compassionate nature, and she creates a safe and supportive environment for her clients to heal and grow. She is working on her doctorate in Social Work Leadership at Simmons University. Natalie has a passion for all things Parisian, from food and architecture to fashion.
Patient Intake Coordinator/ Executive Assistant
Noor has served as a front desk volunteer since January 2022 and graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a bachelor’s in Public Health in May 2023. Her own healthcare experiences and the stories of others contribute to her interest in tackling health economics and systems issues perpetuating health disparities. Ultimately, she plans to attend medical school. Since living in Baltimore, Noor has volunteered with organizations such as Art With a Heart and Turnaround Tuesday. Noor looks forward to continuing her work at Shepherd’s Clinic and serving the community she has grown to call home.
Referral Coordinator
Kimberly Lyles is the Senior Director of Population Health at HealthCare Access Maryland. In this capacity, she oversees the management of Care Coordination, Complex Care, and Social Needs Initiatives. Annually, the Population Health Initiatives serve over 15,000 clients identified as part of a special population: Maternal Child Health, Children and Adults with Special Health Needs, Individuals Seeking Behavioral Health Support, and the Returning Citizens Community. The Population Health Programs boast of providing care coordination services that reduce healthcare costs while improving health outcomes and increasing the utilization of community resources. As a Registered Nurse and Public Health Professional with 25+ years’ experience in Community Outreach, Client Advocacy, Strategic Planning, and Leadership, Kimberly strives to achieve the goal of improving health equity and reducing health disparities by addressing Social Determinants of Health for Baltimore Residents. Trained in Results Based Accountability, Certified in Case Management, and a Certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, Kimberly successfully implements continuous quality improvement projects that assist teams in achieving desired program performance and data management goals. She loves to mentor new leaders and enjoys opportunities to recruit young professionals into public health.
Kimberly is a Baltimore native, holding degrees from Morgan State University and the University of Maryland in Health Education and Nursing. She is married with a blended family of five children and is a loving Dog mom.
Dr. Ritu Prasad is the Senior Physician Advisor at MedStar Union Memorial and Good Samaritan Hospitals, Vice Chief of Staff at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, and the System Clinical Lead for Acute Case Management at MedStar Health. Dr. Prasad also serves as the Vice Chair of the Government Affairs Committee for the American College of Physician Advisors. Ritu is a physician executive and healthcare professional with a diverse background in healthcare leadership, clinical care, denials management, utilization review, case management, EHR optimization, who possesses significant teaching experience within medical and healthcare communities. Ritu received her Bachelor’s Degree from Johns Hopkins University and her medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine. She is Board Certified in Emergency Medicine and Health Care Quality and Management with a Physician Advisor sub-specialty certification.
Secretary
Adongo Matthews is a compassionate and dedicated non-profit professional with a proven track record of making a meaningful impact in the lives of underserved families. With over a decade of experience in Baltimore, she has focused on financial empowerment, housing stability, and utility affordability for the city’s most vulnerable populations.
Adongo’s early work in Baltimore City allowed her to work directly with clients, gaining invaluable insight into their daily struggles. She also had a hand in developing policies and procedures to maximize assistance to families in need, demonstrating her exceptional leadership skills.
Adongo’s academic achievements include an MBA from Alvernia University and a Bachelor’s in Biology from Morgan State University. She brings her relevant education, extensive experience, and unwavering commitment to her role as Executive Director at Shepherd’s Clinic since December 2019, where she leads the organization with passion and expertise.
Staff Nurse
Daysi Lopez serves as a Staff Nurse at Shepherd’s Clinic and in the Maryland Medical Reserve Corps. She has a strong drive to work for underserved populations and to help patients by providing healthcare services with compassion and equity. Daysi graduated from Notre Dame of Maryland with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing.
Data Coordinator
Sabrina Sampson joined the Shepherd’s Clinic team in the summer of 2022. As a twice-over graduate from Morgan State University’s Department of Sociology and Anthropology, she arrived equipped with an extensive background in community-based research here in Baltimore. Before joining our team, she also lent her professional expertise to nationally acclaimed research centers and business consulting firms. Sabrina has returned to Baltimore to continue working in the community as a sociology professor and as our Data Coordinator.
Clinical Manager
Kelly Arguero has a Bachelor’s Degree in Public and Community Health from University of Maryland, College Park, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing from Drexel University in Philadelphia. Her background includes direct nursing care at MedStar Montgomery Medical Center working as an emergency department RN. She currently spends some of her free time as an active volunteer crisis counselor with Crisis Text Line. Kelly joined Shepherd’s Clinic during the summer of 2020. She is eager to combine her nursing and policy backgrounds to deliver quality health care to underserved populations while learning from her patients. Kelly is excited to work with Shepherd’s Clinic to help community members who are most in need of compassionate health care.
Staff Nurse
Michele McComas, RN, retired from her position as the Clinical Manager in May 2022 and currently is a staff nurse. Michele volunteered at Shepherd’s from 2006 until 2013, when she then joined as a staff member. Present duties include maintaining and teaching use of our electronic medical records, managing and scheduling staff and volunteers, overseeing education of patients, maintaining equipment, discovering ways to obtain reduced-cost and free medications for our patients, and maintaining patient databases.
Program Coordinator
Before moving to Baltimore, Libby conducted health policy research and community outreach for 504HealthNet, a non-profit association of 60 federally qualified health centers in New Orleans. She started at Shepherd’s Clinic as a volunteer in January 2019 while earning her direct-entry Master of Science in Nursing degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and became a part-time employee in July. Libby currently serves as the Program Coordinator, overseeing grant and project implementation. She also coordinates outreach efforts in the community. She is specifically interested in expanding access to healthcare and enjoys working to help support Shepherd’s mission to do so.
Staff Nurse
Mari-Claire works at the University of Maryland Medical Center on a surgical unit. She wanted to expand her nursing career by delivering healthcare to the underserved. She joined Shepherd’s Clinic in 2021 to fulfill that passion. Mari-Claire believes that everyone deserves adequate healthcare and wants to do her part to accomplish this. She has a Bachelor’s of Science in Biology from Washington College and a Bachelor’s of Science of Nursing from Stevenson University.
Patient Intake Coordinator / Executive Assistant
Jenny joined Shepherd’s Clinic in May 2020 as a volunteer dedicated to assisting under served communities. She is currently the patient intake coordinator and executive assistant. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Jenny became a Certified Application Counselor and began assisting eligible patients with Medical Assistance insurance enrollment through Maryland Health Connections. She holds a Bachelor of Science with honors in Molecular and Cellular Biology and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Johns Hopkins University.
Lynell Medley is a registered nurse, originally from upstate New York. She relocated to Baltimore by way of Philadelphia in 1990. She was employed at Total Health Care during her early years in Baltimore, working in Utilization Management and Quality Improvement. In 1997, when Baltimore HealthCare Access (now HealthCare Access Maryland) was founded, Lynell began working as a Nurse Ombudsman, assisting individuals experiencing challenges while navigating the Medical Assistance/Managed Care systems. It was during this grassroots work that she developed her love of public health and her commitment to serving the most vulnerable residents of Baltimore City and Maryland, making critical connections to care and services that address social determinants of health. Throughout her career at HealthCare Access Maryland, she has also served as the Director of Medicaid Outreach Programs, and as Vice President of Programs, her current role of 5 years. Lynell is married with 2 children and 4 bonus children. She received her Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing from Russell Sage College in Troy, New York.
Executive Director
Medical Director
Joy Wellness Center Program Coordinator
Volunteer & Onboarding Administrator
Behavioral Health Director
Staff Nurse
Director Of Philanthropy
Staff Nurse
Community Health Advocate
Joy Wellness Center Program Director
President
Vice President
Treasurer
MD
David Finney has served on the Shepherd’s Clinic Board of Directors since 2004. David is a healthcare technology expert who has been driving innovative programs in healthcare for over a decade. As a Co-Founder of Leap Orbit, a software and product development firm focused on electronic health information systems, he helped develop the RxGov PDMP, a full-featured prescription drug monitoring platform that consolidates disparate information representing treatment options, education, enforcement and regulatory requirements, and prescriber patterns and volumes. Prior to founding Leap, David served as a senior advisor to CRISP (Chesapeake Regional Information System for Patients) where he was focused on integrated care in support of Maryland’s unique, all-payer hospital financing model. Prior to that, he was a principal at Audacious Inquiry overseeing the firm’s growing federal healthcare consulting practice. He played an ongoing advisory role at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT within HHS and at CRISP. David also helped to author early planning reports on the trajectory of Maryland’s Health Information Exchange (HIE) and the federal funding requests that established CRISP’s Statewide HIE and Regional Extension Center cooperative agreements. David and his wife Amy also spent two years in Botswana as Peace Corps volunteers, supporting the U.S.-led mobilization to combat Africa’s HIV/AIDS epidemic. He holds a BA from Yale and an MA from Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. George Moran has served on the Board of Directors since the 1990s and started volunteering at the clinic shortly after joining the board. He and his wife, Dr. Marguerite Moran, have been volunteer physicians at the Clinic for more than 20 years. In 2019 Drs. Moran were recognized together as Volunteers of the Year for their decades-long commitment to caring for Shepherd’s patients. George is a Cardiology Specialist with over 48 years of experience in the medical field. He worked as cardiology teaching faculty at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) prior to moving to Union Memorial Hospital in 1982. At Union Memorial, he served as Chief of Medicine and Chief of Cardiology before retiring in 2007. George received his MD from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, completed his residency with the University of Maryland, and conducted his fellowship at the VA. He is also recognized as a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology.
Dr. Clifford Mitchell has served on the Board of Directors since 2019. Clifford is the Director of the Environmental Health Bureau in the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. The Bureau oversees the Office of Food Protection and four centers: Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology, Healthy Homes and Community Services, Injury and Sexual Assault Prevention, and Injury Epidemiology. His responsibilities include environmental public health tracking, monitoring hazardous algal blooms, coordination of environmental health activities with other state agencies, and direction of the department’s preventive medicine residency program. Prior to assuming his current position, Clifford has served as an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and has consulted for international, federal, state, and private entities in the fields of occupational health and indoor air quality.
Clifford earned his MD from Case Western Reserve University and his MPH from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Nathaniel Chase joined the Shepherd’s Clinic Board of Directors in 2020. Nathaniel is a Baltimore Native, Community Influencer, Banker and Motivational Speaker. At present he serves as a Branch Manager for M&T Bank. He has over a decade of Financial Institutional experience, with over 12 Years of Management experience, and 10 Years of Community Involvement. Prior to joining the M&T team in 2017, Nathaniel worked for TD Bank and Bank of America. Nathaniel finds fulfillment in giving back to the community by financial empowerment. Every month he serves at the Jessup Prison as a Motivational Speaker to the male inmates, as well as at Our Daily Bread soup kitchen. Nathaniel is a very optimistic individual, who always finds the good in every situation. Nathaniel received his Bachelor’s in Christian Ministry from Regent University and his Associate’s Degree in Business Administration and Management from Baltimore City Community College.
Staff Nurse Practitioner
Sara Cawrse joined Shepherd’s Clinic in 2011 as a volunteer nurse. She became a staff nurse practitioner in 2012 and assistant to the medical director in 2014. Sara received her BSN and MSN from Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing where she also participated in the Peace Corps Coverdell Fellows Program. The Fellows Program allowed Sara to expand her experience in community health and reinforced her commitment to working with underserved communities. Sara believes in taking a holistic approach to healthcare and has a particular interest in empowering patients through health education.
Behavioral Health Director
Mona Kim, LCPC, NCC, Board-Approved Supervisor is the Behavioral Health Director at Shepherd’s Clinic. Mona’s professional counseling experience includes working with diverse populations across the state of Maryland providing trauma-informed care. Mona’s clinical approach to counseling is cognitive-behavioral, centered on evidence-based research, and also existential, focused on the human condition and the universal concepts that impact human existence. Mona has experience working in both the nonprofit and private sectors, as a mental health provider and clinical supervisor, supervising Masters level counseling and social work interns as well as new graduate professionals working to obtain full licensure. Mona is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University, Master of Science in Counseling program and has been in the counseling field for over a decade.
Facilities Manager
Jeff has worked as the Shepherd’s Facilities Manager for 12 years. He is proud to be a part of an organization that helps people obtain access to not only healthcare, but other important resources as well. In his free time, Jeff enjoys spending time with his extended family and is a huge fan of the Baltimore Orioles.
Angela Burden is a registered nurse, ordained minister, and a native Baltimorean. Rev. Burden has spent her entire professional career serving in Baltimore City in multiple community-based and leadership roles. After a full-time 30-year career as a Public Health Nurse leader with the Baltimore City Health Department, Angela began community-based work as a Faith Community Nurse Coordinator, placing emphasis on the intersection of faith and health within the maternal and child health population. As a public health practitioner, she continues to work on improving birth and maternal health outcomes, while helping to develop programming to reduce infant mortality. Angela is married with two adult children and two grandchildren who she describes as her heartbeats. She is a graduate Western H.S., the University of Maryland School of Nursing, and the St. Mary’s Seminary & University Ecumenical Institute of Theology.
